Wings are SO great!

The really alarming part is the the high-chairs on the right!!

I have told you before—- well, at least I have said before, that I have this reoccurring nightmare about wings.

The way it works is—– I am caught!!!! Red handed with a pile of wings and a pitcher of  Bud Heavy by an ex-girlfriend. She says, “What happened to you?? I thought you lost all that weight in the People Magazine Weight Loss Challenge.” Then she completes the thought with “Jeez…. for a while there I was sorry I dumped you”.

The point here is that now I have to eat my wings in PRIVATE… you know… like the true food addict that I am —– I hold up in my house and eat wings….. alone!!

All kidding aside- I don’t really like Hooters that much, but they do make a nice wing. This recipe is for the REGULAR WINGS—- you can also order the NAKED WINGS that I BELIEVE are baked and I know that they don’t have the breading.

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients

1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup Louisiana hot sauce
1 dash pepper, Ground
1 dash garlic powder
1/2 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
10 chicken wings

Directions
1 Combine the flour, paprika, cayenne pepper, and salt in a small bowl.
2 If the wings are frozen, be sure to defrost and dry them.
3 Put the wings into a large bowl and sprinkle the flour mixture over them, coating each wing evenly.
4 Put the wings in the refrigerator for 60 to 90 minutes. (This will help the breading to stick to the wings when fried.)
5 Heat oil in a deep fryer to 375 degrees.
6 You want just enough oil to cover the wings entirely — an inch or so deep at least. Combine the butter, hot sauce, ground pepper, and garlic powder in a small saucepan over low heat. Heat until the  butter is melted and the ingredients are well blended.
7 Put all the wings into the hot oil and fry them for 10 to 15 minutes or until some parts of the wings begin to turn dark brown.
8 Remove the wings from the oil to a paper towel to drain.
9 But don’t let them sit too long, because you want to serve the wings hot. Quickly put the wings into a large bowl.
10 Add the hot sauce and stir, coating all the wings evenly.
11 You could also use a large plastic container with a lid for this.
12 Put all the wings inside the container, add the sauce, put on the lid, then shake. Serve with Bleu cheese dressing and celery sticks on the side.

Now- this is the actual recipe—— if you want to do it the WeighDownSouth way…. cut down on the butter and DON’T fry them…. stick them in a Pyrex dish and BAKE them in the oven. I just kinda watch them and when they are brown—– then I enjoy!

The whole point is that I have absolutely NO INTENTION of never eating wings again. I might change the recipe a little—- and eat just a few—– but I won’t be happy without them. I mean, if somebody told you that you can’t have your favorite thing again….. ever…. that sux doesn’t it? It would be enough to make me depressed.

Can’t do it!

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2 Responses to “Wings are SO great!”

Anonymous Fat Girl Says:
June 26th, 2010 at 9:54 am

My husband is a HUGE fan of wings, I’ll have to share this recipe with him. :)

Cammy@TippyToeDiet Says:
June 26th, 2010 at 6:52 pm

Not a wing fan. Nor Hooters. :)

I’m with you, though, there are some things I don’t intend to give up. It’s all a matter of creating the reasonable facsimile, or having teensy tiny portions of the real thing.

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